So last week a song that was played had some scrambled graphics.
I made a note of it and put it in my billfold.
Yesterday I found the note and decided to check and see if I needed to rerip that song.
I played the song once,twice and again a third time with absolutely no scrambled graphics.
What would cause a song to have scrambled graphics one time and then play perfectly 3 times in a row?

Are you watching it exactly like you had it set up before?

Was it on the computer's screen or the singers monitor?

Could it have been a loose cable?

Played it how? Digitally or on a CDG player? It makes a difference. I guess "rerip" indicates digitally.

If it was a CDG player, it just means whatever obstacle -- be it a piece of dust or smear on the head or the disk -- didn't affect playback after it was removed. In the case of a digital playback, it would be almost impossible if you had ECC on your disk and your RAM. But if you have SDRAM it could be (literally) a cosmic ray that knocks a bit out of alignment and causes an error. In the old days, when DRAM cell sizes were so large, it was a common occurrence. Nowadays, it is very uncommon, but it still can happen.

Or you could have had a disk error in some fashion, probably more likely. There is ECC there, usually, but it's hard to say what could happen between the platter and memory.

If I had to guess the most likely cause, it would be a USB disk connection. Despite the crapola lathered on by some, the cables, wires, extra circuitry, and power supply problems of a USB disk make them much less reliable than an internal disk.

And what brand? One bit would be unlikely to cause a major problem with Sound Choice or other screen-clearing wipe styles. But with the line-by-line of Chartbuster or DK, one or two bits can knock off the whole thing.

You might check your system logger and see if you have any reported disk errors.

It wa being played digitally. The library is on the internal hard drive, not on a USB HD.

It was a Sound Choice song.

Oh well, I just found it strange as to why it would happen and then not happen.
Next gig I will play the song (before start time), just as set up before when it did occur and see if it happens again.

Thank you for your input, I will let you know if it happens again after playing as above.

No, that is the oly rip of that song.
Now, If my memory serves me correctly there was a restart of the song involved.

What player? If it's Winamp and the MP3+G plugin, that's it -- I have had the same thing happen on restarts.